The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-07-08
Aldens Manifold Oyclopedia of knowledge
and Language,


One of the most extraordinary liter
ary enterprises of the age is the work
which bears the above title.
The specimen pages which the pub
Usher sends free to any applicant, show
the type which is used-a good clear
faced BREWER; also the form--"Ideal"
for convenience, easy for the eye, handy
to hold The volumes will average
about GAO pages each, and there will
probably be about thirty of them--tbe
"manifold' number will not be incon
venient; when you consult Cyclopedia
you are supposed to know what ''title"
you are looking for; the lettering on
the back of each volume tells you at a
glance what titles will be found with
in, so you do not look in the wrong
one---and the volumes are go 'handy"
you quickly turn to the sought-for
page.
There will be several thousand illus
trations-no ''mere pictures" but
everything of Importance that will serve
to illustrate.
The Manifold Cylopedia is to be
much more than "Cyclopedia of Uni.
versal Knowledge;" it will embody also
Dictionary of the English language
including every word which has any
claim to place in the language. How
often you have consulted Appleton's
or Chambers, or Johnson's Cyclopedia
and failed to find the title you were
looking for--then consulted Webster's
Unabridged and were successful; the
word belonged to the Dictionary rath-
er than to the Cyclopedia. Or you
have consulted Webster, and found
little more than a mere definition of
the word-you must go to the Cyclic.
pedia for details of knowledge. Or,
more probable than either of the fore
going suppositions, you do not own
either a first-class Cyclopedia or a first
class dictionary, or only one of the
two, because of their prohibitory cost,
so you 'consult your imagination" and
ego hungry for lack of the few lines
of print that would satisfy you! In
the Manifold Cyclopeda you will find
a survey of all knowledge which is
illustrated by the English language
and its cost is within your reach, only
so cents a volue for cloth binding, 65
cent for half morocco
In this age of the world, no general
Cyclopedia or dictionary can be in any
proper sense "original-each new COM
plication, if it has merit, is based upon
the knowledge found embodied in all
its predecessors. "Knowledge' as set
set forth in books can not be monopoliz,
ed by "patent" or ''copyright'-onl My
the form of embodiment can be thus
covered. The latest discoveries Tor
imaginings) of the scientists, the latest
'finds' (or frauds) of the archpologists,
the latest theories of the political econo
mists-all are subject to the sight
drafts" of the latest Encyclopedia.
Aldens Manifold Cyclopedia under
takes to combine in the most conven.
lent and concise (and yet fully and
economical form possible, the results of
the scholarship of the world, up to the
time of its publication. Awaiting it
self of most of the labors of It's predes-
sors who have accomplished the best
results, the Manifold Cyclopeda draws
more largely from Chambers than from
any other of the family of Cyclopedias,
and more largely from Stormonth than
from any other of the family of diction-
aries-the Chambers is an acknowledge
ed model for a Cyclopedia, but it is
adapted particularly to England rather
than to America; Stormonth is the ac-
knowledged peer of Webster, Worces-
ter, the Imperial, and Murray, as an
authority, but without peer in the
combined qualities of consciousness,
clearness, and accuracy of learning.
No authorities, however, are blindly
followed, but effort is carefully made
to bring all matters to the generally
accepted standard of the most eminent
American, rather than foreign scholar
ship.
Editorial talent second to none in
America, IN experience and skill is en-
gagged in the conduct of the work; the
publishers past experience in CYCLIC
pedia making (notably in The Library
of Universal knowledge, now known
-trebled in price-as the lnternation-
al Cyclopedia) is good basis for the
pledge he makes to his patrons that
the Manifold shall be in inferior to
no ether Cyclopedia in any of the i'm
portant qualities of popular guide to
knowledge. Specimen pages free, or
a specimen volume may be ordered and
returned if not wanted. John b. AL
den, Publisher, 393 Pearl Street, New
York.